A Programming Question
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HA ! I knew that you would look to chastise me but... I have a new client that is requesting some features that I have never had any "real" experience with although its a fairly common feature these days. We have an application that does insurance calculation, prints all documentation such as applications and ID cards and such for insuring motorcycles. The app is all MFC ( Ver 6.0). The client wants to be able to move the data ( in some form to be determined after they have 600 or so meetings :) ) via the internet to their home office. We have done this in the past using ftp but they want something else. The link will have to be bi-directional as I have to make absolutly certain that the data was recieved and also get a policy # back. I will probably have to write the server program as well as integrate the client stuff in our existing application. The data will have to be sent in ascii as we are talking to a mainframe at the other end and I will probably have to do CGI type stuff as we are not guaranteed as to the serverside software being MS. I can handle the CGI stuff but am at a loss as to how tom get the data from my application using HTTP . So my question is Will somebody write this for me? :) NO NO Actually would someone recommend a good book or two on this < Heavy on code > that I can peruse and gain the necessary knowledge to plan, price, and write this functionality ? Hopefully it will be available on Amazon as In have looked all over town for a decent book and can't find anything suitable. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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HA ! I knew that you would look to chastise me but... I have a new client that is requesting some features that I have never had any "real" experience with although its a fairly common feature these days. We have an application that does insurance calculation, prints all documentation such as applications and ID cards and such for insuring motorcycles. The app is all MFC ( Ver 6.0). The client wants to be able to move the data ( in some form to be determined after they have 600 or so meetings :) ) via the internet to their home office. We have done this in the past using ftp but they want something else. The link will have to be bi-directional as I have to make absolutly certain that the data was recieved and also get a policy # back. I will probably have to write the server program as well as integrate the client stuff in our existing application. The data will have to be sent in ascii as we are talking to a mainframe at the other end and I will probably have to do CGI type stuff as we are not guaranteed as to the serverside software being MS. I can handle the CGI stuff but am at a loss as to how tom get the data from my application using HTTP . So my question is Will somebody write this for me? :) NO NO Actually would someone recommend a good book or two on this < Heavy on code > that I can peruse and gain the necessary knowledge to plan, price, and write this functionality ? Hopefully it will be available on Amazon as In have looked all over town for a decent book and can't find anything suitable. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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HA ! I knew that you would look to chastise me but... I have a new client that is requesting some features that I have never had any "real" experience with although its a fairly common feature these days. We have an application that does insurance calculation, prints all documentation such as applications and ID cards and such for insuring motorcycles. The app is all MFC ( Ver 6.0). The client wants to be able to move the data ( in some form to be determined after they have 600 or so meetings :) ) via the internet to their home office. We have done this in the past using ftp but they want something else. The link will have to be bi-directional as I have to make absolutly certain that the data was recieved and also get a policy # back. I will probably have to write the server program as well as integrate the client stuff in our existing application. The data will have to be sent in ascii as we are talking to a mainframe at the other end and I will probably have to do CGI type stuff as we are not guaranteed as to the serverside software being MS. I can handle the CGI stuff but am at a loss as to how tom get the data from my application using HTTP . So my question is Will somebody write this for me? :) NO NO Actually would someone recommend a good book or two on this < Heavy on code > that I can peruse and gain the necessary knowledge to plan, price, and write this functionality ? Hopefully it will be available on Amazon as In have looked all over town for a decent book and can't find anything suitable. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Have you looked at Message Queuing(sp?)? This isn't a Microsoft only technology and it supports most of what you want to do and the infrastructure is already there on most servers. It sure beats writing CGI programs to do all this junk :-D
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HA ! I knew that you would look to chastise me but... I have a new client that is requesting some features that I have never had any "real" experience with although its a fairly common feature these days. We have an application that does insurance calculation, prints all documentation such as applications and ID cards and such for insuring motorcycles. The app is all MFC ( Ver 6.0). The client wants to be able to move the data ( in some form to be determined after they have 600 or so meetings :) ) via the internet to their home office. We have done this in the past using ftp but they want something else. The link will have to be bi-directional as I have to make absolutly certain that the data was recieved and also get a policy # back. I will probably have to write the server program as well as integrate the client stuff in our existing application. The data will have to be sent in ascii as we are talking to a mainframe at the other end and I will probably have to do CGI type stuff as we are not guaranteed as to the serverside software being MS. I can handle the CGI stuff but am at a loss as to how tom get the data from my application using HTTP . So my question is Will somebody write this for me? :) NO NO Actually would someone recommend a good book or two on this < Heavy on code > that I can peruse and gain the necessary knowledge to plan, price, and write this functionality ? Hopefully it will be available on Amazon as In have looked all over town for a decent book and can't find anything suitable. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
How the server is set up will drive how you want to do the rest. Encluding other usage they may want from the server. CGI is good for learning but in a heavily used area it is not the best. Have you given any consideration to Web Services approach? (May Bob forgive me. This is one area that you can actually work well with the Java religion.) This is the Lounge so; Email me directly and I can share a few trial functions I did a number of years ago with CHttpConnection. You did say MFC app. They have no error checking at all, and are not production (or good CP article) quality, but may help to show some peices. "I will find a new sig someday."
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HA ! I knew that you would look to chastise me but... I have a new client that is requesting some features that I have never had any "real" experience with although its a fairly common feature these days. We have an application that does insurance calculation, prints all documentation such as applications and ID cards and such for insuring motorcycles. The app is all MFC ( Ver 6.0). The client wants to be able to move the data ( in some form to be determined after they have 600 or so meetings :) ) via the internet to their home office. We have done this in the past using ftp but they want something else. The link will have to be bi-directional as I have to make absolutly certain that the data was recieved and also get a policy # back. I will probably have to write the server program as well as integrate the client stuff in our existing application. The data will have to be sent in ascii as we are talking to a mainframe at the other end and I will probably have to do CGI type stuff as we are not guaranteed as to the serverside software being MS. I can handle the CGI stuff but am at a loss as to how tom get the data from my application using HTTP . So my question is Will somebody write this for me? :) NO NO Actually would someone recommend a good book or two on this < Heavy on code > that I can peruse and gain the necessary knowledge to plan, price, and write this functionality ? Hopefully it will be available on Amazon as In have looked all over town for a decent book and can't find anything suitable. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
a web service :) in .NET - forget about knowing all those underlying protocols if you don't need to
Stupidity dies. The end of future offspring. Evolution wins. - A Darwin Awards Haiku
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a web service :) in .NET - forget about knowing all those underlying protocols if you don't need to
Stupidity dies. The end of future offspring. Evolution wins. - A Darwin Awards Haiku
As the Soprano family is so fond of saying fergetaboutit. Hey the underlying OS could be Linux - unix - Solaris - or Windows on the server side. On the client side I have to support anything from Win95 - XP. Its gotta be a generic solution client side wise. Server side I think I can do the job ( But am not real sure ) Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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HA ! I knew that you would look to chastise me but... I have a new client that is requesting some features that I have never had any "real" experience with although its a fairly common feature these days. We have an application that does insurance calculation, prints all documentation such as applications and ID cards and such for insuring motorcycles. The app is all MFC ( Ver 6.0). The client wants to be able to move the data ( in some form to be determined after they have 600 or so meetings :) ) via the internet to their home office. We have done this in the past using ftp but they want something else. The link will have to be bi-directional as I have to make absolutly certain that the data was recieved and also get a policy # back. I will probably have to write the server program as well as integrate the client stuff in our existing application. The data will have to be sent in ascii as we are talking to a mainframe at the other end and I will probably have to do CGI type stuff as we are not guaranteed as to the serverside software being MS. I can handle the CGI stuff but am at a loss as to how tom get the data from my application using HTTP . So my question is Will somebody write this for me? :) NO NO Actually would someone recommend a good book or two on this < Heavy on code > that I can peruse and gain the necessary knowledge to plan, price, and write this functionality ? Hopefully it will be available on Amazon as In have looked all over town for a decent book and can't find anything suitable. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
PHP is a good way to go on the server side. /ravi Let's put "civil" back in "civilization" http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
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As the Soprano family is so fond of saying fergetaboutit. Hey the underlying OS could be Linux - unix - Solaris - or Windows on the server side. On the client side I have to support anything from Win95 - XP. Its gotta be a generic solution client side wise. Server side I think I can do the job ( But am not real sure ) Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
but on the client side its just XML sent to a port - nothing OS specific about XML
Stupidity dies. The end of future offspring. Evolution wins. - A Darwin Awards Haiku